This document discusses different ways to form questions in English, including subject-verb inversion, the use of auxiliary verbs, negative questions, questions with prepositions, and indirect questions. It provides examples of questions formed through inversion with modal verbs like "could" and "would", the verb "to be", and the verbs "have" and "have got". It also covers adding "do/does" or "did" as auxiliaries, negative questions, questions with prepositions placed at the end, questions words as subjects vs. objects, and the structure of indirect questions.

1. QUESTION FORMATION
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2. INVERSION SUBJECT/VERB
 With modal verbs, including “will”, “would” and
“shall”:
Ex.: Could you lend me 1 million euros?
Would you accept a job for €300 a month?
 With the verb “to be”:
Ex.: Are you crazy?
 With “have” in the perfect tenses:
Ex: Have you ever seen “Breaking Bad”
 With “have got”:
Ex.: Have you got 1million euros?

3. Adding an auxiliary
 “Do/does” in the present tense, before the
subject:
Ex.: Do you like the English class?
Does he have a million euros?
 “Did” in the past simple, before the subject:
Ex: Did she really meet George Clooney at his
wedding?

4. NEGATIVE QUESTIONS
 Often express surprise:
Ex: Why didn’t you come to the English class
yesterday?
 Often used when you expect somebody to agree
with you:
Ex.: Isn’t the English teacher simply fantastic?

5. QUESTIONS AND
PREPOSITIONS
 In questions with verbs followed by prepositions,
the preposition is placed at the end:
Ex: What are you talking about?
 Often we just use the question word and the
preposition:
Ex. I’m studying English. What for?

6. QUESTIONS WORDS AS
SUBJECTS
 No auxiliaries are added in the present simple or
past tenses to make the following distinction:
 Question word as subject:
Ex.: Who killed the teacher? A student killed
him.
Subject Subject
 Question word as direct object:
Ex: Who did the teacher kill? He killed a
student.
Object Subject Object

7. INDIRECT QUESTIONS
 Questions within other questions
 The order is Subject+Verb (no inversion):
Ex.: Could you tell me where EOI Carabanchel
is?
Subject Verb
 Auxiliaries “do”, “does” or “did” are not used:
Ex.: Do you know where he works?
Do you remember what the teacher said
yesterday?
 We use “if” or “whether” in YES/NO questions:
Ex.: Do you know if/whether the English
teacher is very strict?